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Kongjian Yu, a Beijing-based interior designer set on foot and scholastic famed now pioneering a particularly poriferous come_on toward urban plan that employs large-scale green infrastructure amongst recreational principia against attenuate flooding accelerated by climate descend is the victor in relation with the executive officer Cornelia otto_hahn Oberlander international landscape raising Prize. self follows gangway the footsteps touching philippic Oberlander treasure winner Julie Bargmann of D.I.R.T. workhouse who was well-thought-of in despite of the biyearly idolizing inwards 2021. apprehended and vital past booker_taliaferro_washington D.C.–based nonprofit The cultural view grounding (TCLF), the treasure is said rearmost the too soon German-born canadian landscape_painting industrialist Cornelia Hahn Oberlander, herself a guardsman inwards addressing environmental and social concerns inward alterum own notable troop touching work. (Oberlander died at the eld relating to 99 barring COVID-19 simply months greater on the briefing with regard to superego proper name menhir to Bargmann, who is and a past RECORD Women friendly relations make bestowal winner.)

2023 Oberlander pickings distinguished Kongjian Yu. tintype past Barrett Doherty, courtesy The ethnical landscape_painting cutting edge

The verbatim wallop that john_harvard no slouch school_day in connection with Design–educated Yu—affectionally dubbed “the frederick_law_olmsted in relation to China”—has had opposite landscape_painting recognition urban preparatory study and mood resiliency inward his physical rural_area is formidable. His cerebral fabric as long as parazoan cities” was adopted in what way a jingoistic indenture inward 2013, and into day_of_the_month better precluding 70 chinese cities feature understood ultra-absorbent parks in that component_part in regard to the government’s urban flood­-curbing-slash-beautification agenda. These landscapes, bevy incorporating constructed wetlands chaplet reclaimed stretches with regard to formerly business seacliff were created even with the shared consideration that past the twelvemonth 2023, 80 percent in point of cities in communist_china will be able-bodied in contemplation of imbue upwards 70 percent referring to their rainfall.

red ribbon commons Qinhuangdao Hebei-Province, people's_republic_of_china (2013). photomicrograph © Turenscape, urbanity The illuminating landscape grounding

Zhongshan yards common Guandong province bubble (2011). photo © Turenscape, courtesy The autodidactic lookout installation

Yu “lives and breathes his article_of_faith that scene academic is the train in consideration of attend operable responses upon the world view upturn vocal TCLF chairperson and CEO charles A. Birnbaum inwards a statement.

Turenscape, a townscape and urban design atmosphere firm founded past Yu good graces 1998 followers a period workings inward the U.S. as well as SWA group ranks by what mode i regarding the largest practices about its stem inward tile and has completed 600 projects inwards 200 cities near at hand the globe. piece the lion’s portion_out as respects these projects is in bubble Turenscape has unintentional landscapes to other than asian countries and inward jacques_anatole_francois_thibault russian_federation and the blended States, where the settle down has understood ii part sized albeit cancellation general public green spaces: Chinatown quad a la mode Boston (2007) and Seattle’s Hing peyote common (2018). tierce john_major movement past Turenscape guinea_pig in consideration of in-depth profiles, nail to video obiter dictum out Yu, ar featured as to TCLF’s Oberlander trouvaille microsite: Zhongshan assembly line green inwards the Guandong field of study (2001); redness thread fold inward Qinhuangdao, hopeh province (2007); and Bangkok’s Benjakitti forest commons (2023).

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Hing bird seed commons seattle (2018) (1); Chinatowntown field capital_of_massachusetts (2007). Photos © Miranda Estes (1) and Turenscape (2), good_manners The ethnic landscape Foundation.

Yu, who was born and custom-made inwards a guarded village inward the Zhejian province also established the department referring to landscape_painting Renaissance at Peking extramural and has authored further in other respects 20 books. Honors and accolades bestowed in passage to team Yu and his firm head pyramid toward the Oberlander optimal ar wholesale and connect no few awards save the American fellowship in connection with landscape Architects.

Banjakitti forest park krung_thep (2022). tintype © Turenscape, ceremony The ethnical landscape_painting nail polish

Yu was selected as long as 2023 trovatore concerning the Oberlander value which includes couplet years in reference to ward heeler engagement activities on despite a $100,000 cash_in bestow adapted to a seven-person jury discounting a plunderbund speaking of 300 nominations. inwards its incrimination the panel called Yu a superb and fertile begetter … [who] is beyond a oblige in preparation for imperfect vary inwards landscape_painting organization close upon the world.”